Category: Photos from meetings

Our latest meeting on Thursday 20th March was a solo presentation by Dave Line on the art of Segmented or Polychromatic assemblies. This art relies on using many pieces of woods of various colours that have to be cut to very accurate tolerances in order to make some of the items featured here.

Our meeting on Thursday 6th March 2025 was a demonstration by Mark Sutton on the art of making boxes.

After being introduced by our new chairman, Mark gave the meeting a short history about his turning. He was a founding member of this club that started in 2006 and is still a member today. His involvement in the demonstration circuit came about by Alec asking Mark to do demonstrations at our premises. This led on to him doing demonstrations elsewhere . Mark always comes back to his roots in the club when invited to do a demonstration.

Held on 06-02-2025.

Our AGM (Annual General Meeting) was held on Thursday 6th February 2025, there were the usual reports from the Chairman and the Treasurer, but the main part of the meeting was to firstly to dissolve the current committee and elect the new committee for the period February 25 to February 26.

Our meeting on Thursday 23rd January was organized by Nick Simpson and Nick’s theme for the meeting was Deep Bowl Hollowing. He had all 5 lathes in operation all doing various things but with hollowing being the main theme.

Our meeting on Thursday 14th November was arranged by Susan Drew, Susan had chosen Pyrography as her theme for the meeting. Over the past few years since Susan had joined our club she had shown various items in competitions and in general that she had decorated using a Pyrography machine, these were all very well received by the turners, so much so that she was requested to do a session demonstrating her art.

Start Time 6.45 pm.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday 14th November 2024, it’s being organized by Susan Drew and Susan’s theme for the meeting is to make use of a Pyrography tool to embellish her woodturnings. Susan has an excellent touch when it comes to using a Pyrography machine, something she hopes to pass on to some of the club turners. We as turners don’t seem to have the magic touch that Susan has for this very delicate art, but it is something we all appreciate and would like to emulate.